2 input + 2 backlight bug-fix patches which I would like to add to the Fedora kernels

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue May 6 12:55:14 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 05/05/2014 06:48 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> FYI I've just added a patch with another set of acpi-video backlight quirks
>> to the fedora kernel pkgs. This should be non controversial since upstream
>> has agreed to maintain the quirk table for now, until it is certain that
>> switch to using video.use_native_backlight=1 as default can be safely done.
>>
>> There are 4 more patches which I would like to add to the kernel to fix
>> various bigs, I've attached them here.
>>
>> Here is the changelog from my (local) spec file modifications:
>>
>> - Add a patch to fix the Synaptics Touch Pad V 103S found on some keyboard
>>   docks for win8 tablets
>> - Add a patch to fix the elantech touchpad on Gigabyte U2442 laptops
> 
> I think those two were just Acked/applied this morning, so go for it.
> 
>> - Add a patch to fix backlight control on the Samsung NC210/NC110 (rhbz#861573)
>> - Add a patch to fix backlight & wifi on the Asus EEE PC 1015PX (rhbz#1067181)
> 
> These two seem fine as well.  We can keep an eye on the Asus one and
> remove/replace it if something else turns up.

Ok, I've just pushed this to the f20 branch, I expect them to trickle down
into the 3.15rc-s soon enough, and f19 can pick them up when f19 moves from 3.13
to 3.14 (the backlight quirk handling is significantly different in 3.13).

Regards,

Hans


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